Prof Anderson 'As IEA reported, top 10% of emitters accounted for nearly half of global CO₂ emissions from energy use in 2021, compared with 0.2% for bottom 10%...the greenhouse gas emissions of top 1% are 1.5 times those of bottom half of the world’s population.'

❌£5,000 donation to Jeremy Corbyn from our people-powered movement funded by small donations

✅Wes Streeting taking £175,000 from donors linked to private health firms and announcing expanded NHS use of private health providers

Starmer's Labour is in the pocket of lobbyists.

New Alex Chapman analysis in City A.M. shows falling demand for business flights

✈️ Flights for business purposes fell 29% in 2023 compared to 2019
💵 Businesses spent £2.9bn less on air travel
🤔Analysis casts further doubt over air industry’s claim that more flying boosts economy

As senior Israeli intelligence and security officials have mounting concerns about Netanyahu's endless war without strategy in Gaza, he prohibits them from meeting with U.S. officials, who he wants to keep arming and funding his self-preservation campaign. axios.com/2024/05/19/net…

Sick and tired of low pay and insecure work, thousands of hospitality workers are turning to trade unionism to demand their worth. tribunemag.co.uk/2023/12/organi…

The senility of evil.

INSANE diversity washing here in Brockwell Park, where walls cutting off locals for expensive festivals, are adorned with bell hooks quotes!

1 in 3 people in Lambeth live in social housing - does privatising their one green space create ‘optimal wellbeing and joy’ ?! Sickening.

“When they do that kind thing to Angela Rayner 🌹 or Diane Abbott MP it sends that message, to black women in particular, ‘Don’t get involved in politics. We don’t want you.” Carys Afoko breaking down the impact of these smears on ⁦Over The Top Under The Radar⁩

I consider this chart to be the clearest indictment of our country’s path over the last several decades: In 1980, the U.S. had a typical life expectancy for an affluent country. Today, the U.S. has the lowest life expectancy of any affluent country:

'It cannot be permissible that we as humanity continue to allow this genocide, which should never have permitted in the first place'

South African foreign minister Naledi Pandor at the weekend

The definition of a “policy fiasco” is that ample, detailed and well-founded warnings of disaster were given, and completely ignored. As Barbara Tuchman put it, the problem was “wooden headedness”.
Or as Schiller said: “Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain”

Mossad is trending...
Former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky explains how Israel controls American diplomats, politicians, writers and journalists. Get the troublemakers labelled as anti-Semitic... and it’s a stain that can’t be removed.

After a strike on Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza on 18 May, 34 patients were admitted to nearby Al Awda hospital, and amid nearby fighting, the hospital has now run out of drinking water... 1/4

I’m very honoured to been made an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Scottish Literature Association for Scottish Literature which does sterling work to promote Scots writing. The ceremony was deeply moving with the recitation of ballads and the singing of songs in Scots and the Gaelic. One highlight a

‘Whatever residual, misty-eyed longing there was for people of colour to reach the highest offices was surely dashed by a brown multimillionaire endlessly bleating that he is here to “stop the boats”.’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Support Calderdale’s first community-owned nature reserve - a crowdfunder to buy Bridestones Moor near Todmorden: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bridestones-…

Ships calling at Southampton produced four times more NOx than cars in the city

And cruise ships were responsible for more than half the PM2.5 pollution

Milford Haven and Immingham also badly affected by ship pollution

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Incredible sight of 2 Bitterns chasing each other about in the skies over RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset today.... for a full 10 minutes!! 😮😍🐦

Loading tens of billions of tonnes of GHGs into global atmosphere year after year is like loading rounds into a revolver and putting it to our collective head

Here’s how a rich city in a rich state in the richest country on Earth has just been pounded

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